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Published: 8 June, 2023

Pacific peoples’ connection – to family, community, culture and faith – has been a key source of strength and resilience in the pandemic. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report  Pacific connectedness and wellbeing in the pandemic&nbsp

Published: 23 July, 2024

Te Hiringa Mahara and Le Va co-hosted a webinar on supporting Pacific people's wellbeing in Aotearoa. The webinar shared and expanded on the findings of our Pacific wellbeing report which was released in May 2024.   The report brought together an assessment of Pacific peoples mental health and

Published: 12 June, 2024

The Leadership as a mental wellbeing system enabler: Insights on progress toward Kia Manawanui report focuses on one aspect of the ‘long-term pathway’ to transform Aotearoa’s approach to mental health and wellbeing. The purpose of this report is to provide an assessment of and insights about system

Published: 17 May, 2023

Too many young people experiencing acute mental distress are being admitted to adult inpatient mental health services, and this practice needs to stop. This is according to today’s Te Hiringa Mahara – the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report Te Huringa Tuarua 2023: Youth services focus

Published: 14 May, 2026

The second Wellbeing assessment explores the wellbeing status for people who interact with mental health and addiction services. We report here against 22 wellbeing indicators from our He Ara Oranga Wellbeing Outcomes Framework using three national social surveys conducted between 2018 and 2023

Published: 2 September, 2025

forms part of the ongoing Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission programme of work examining effective crisis response systems, which will inform our upcoming monitoring report scheduled for publication in November 2025, and we expect to inform future service design and

Published: 5 June, 2024

access to mental health and addiction services and the service options available to people. In this infographic we present the key results for young people. The infographic also presents findings from our quantitative assessment of mental health and wellbeing among young people and rangatahi Māori, using

Published: 17 September, 2021

Commission calls for the Justice Select Committee to listen carefully to the voices of rainbow communities The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (the Commission) appeared in front of the Justice Select Committee yesterday to speak to its  written submission  on the Conversion

Published: 15 March, 2023

lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic can help support the mental health and wellbeing of communities recovering from other crises, like Cyclone Gabrielle. The report shows the following: Help provided will need to target people who already experience disadvantage, including people and whānau

Published: 28 August, 2024

Government’s priority Taking mental health seriously   was allocated to each initiative and the expenditure on each of those initiatives for the four years from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2023. It describes each initiative in terms of what it set out to achieve and its status as of 30 June 2023. The report